Examination of eleven bores representing hundreds of Dublin, Port Gawler, Munno Para, and Yatala, permits a more comprehensive synthesis of the stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of the Adelaide Plains Cainozoic sequence than hitherto possible. Of...

The type section 20 miles (32 km) south of Adelaide has been re-examined. Comprising about 107 feet (32½ m) of bryozoal calcarenitic impure limestones, sands, silts, and clays, it is informally subdivided into three apparently conformable successions...

Further drilling to determine foundation conditions at the proposed Waymouth Street Telephone Exchange was requested in a letter from the Director of Works dated 5th February. It was requested that this work be carried out in liaison with Soilmech Pty...

Foundation investigations for the proposed Commonwealth Law Courts Building were requested in a letter dated 3rd November, 1967 from the Acting Director of Works. The proposed building will be about 130 feet long and 100 feet wide. No other details...

The Dublin 1:63 360 map area is located on the ADELAIDE 1:250 000 map area, and is centred about 40 miles north-west of Adelaide. Within this area, possible Adelaide System rocks are unconformably overlain by Tertiary marine limestones, sands, silts...

Port Willunga Beds which were penetrated beneath this site underlie ?Plio-Pleistocene Carisbrooke Sand and rest on Upper Eocene silty Blanche Point Marls. With maximum proved thickness of 26 -feet, the Beds here comprise a leached marine silt up to 12...

A thickness of approximately 112 feet of Port Willunga Beds is exposed in coastal outcrops and is comparable with the type-section at Port Willunga. The age as determined by planktonic foraminifera, ranges from Upper Eocene to middle Oligocene. An...

The geological conditions and rock and soil properties existing beneath the Adelaide city area, have, of necessity, become more important as both the size of buildings, and the extent of construct ion has increased. Drilling and excavation in the area...

One sand has benthonic foraminifera of Upper Eocene age, and is referred to Rogue Formation, correlating also with basal Port Willunga Beds. The other sand is from a Pleistocene "aeolianite" sequence, Bridgewater formation. Its microfauna, mostly...

Foraminiferal limestone matrix around a whale rib collected from the Port Willunga - Aldinga cliffs, St. Vincent Basin, is probably Oligo-Miocene in age, and from near the locally exposed top of Port Willunga Beds. Foraminiferal limestone matrices...

Drilling to determine foundation conditions for the proposed Forensic Science and Motor Vehicles Buildings was requested by Mr. A. Dancauskis of the Public Buildings Department. The two buildings will be from 6 to 9 stories high, will have basements,...

This discussion of the hydrology of the Adelaide region is confined, in general terms, to the occurrence, availability and salinity of surface and ground waters, with particular regard to shallow groundwaters. Other phases of the hydrologic cycle...

Adelaide Cement Co. Ltd. has operated a Limestone quarry from the cliffs near Klein Point, Yorke Peninsula since 1925. The annual output is about 250,000 tons; production to date exceeds three and a half million tons. A programme of diamond drilling...

In the light of accumulated stratigraphic and foraminiferal data a re-examination has been made of the Willunga Bore W.B. 1 , drilled in 1951 - 1952 3½ miles east of the coastal type section of the Tertiary sequence in the Willunga Sub-basin and St....

Water bore No. 1 located at Immanuel College in Camden Park, 4½ miles south-west of Adelaide, was sunk to a total depth of 350 feet on a portion of the Para Fault Block bounded by two splinters of the Para Fault. Recent to Pleistocene clays overlie...

The low grade lignite deposits which form the Inkerman coalfield lie within a sequence of unconsolidated Tertiary sediments 100 m thick in the northern St. Vincent Basin. Drilling and test pumping in three aquifers has provided approximate...

In 1969 the Department of Mines attempted to rehabilitate an existing bore at the school which had been infilled to near surface by various debris. After cleaning out, an attempt was made to develop the bore but the continued influx of a fine silty...

A borehole survey has been carried out in the Willunga Basin, 30 km south of Adelaide, beginning a new investigation of its hydrogeology. Although the groundwater resources of the Basin are being developed rapidly, there is little useful...

Immediately beneath the Elizabeth West waste disposal area, between depths of 6m and at least 128m, is a series of Pleistocene and Tertiary confined aquifers. A site visit and examination of departmental records has indicated that: • The area is one...

Three cable tool holes have been drilled to investigate the foundation conditions for a proposed new bridge over the railway line, on Burbridge Road, Hilton. Drilling disclosed a near horizontal sequence of Quaternary and Tertiary sediments which are...